Dr Günthard is a Professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. At the University Hospital, he is head of the HIV-research laboratory in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He is a senior consultant in general infectious diseases and HIV medicine. Dr Günthard teaches medical students, supervises residents in internal medicine, infectious diseases fellows, and doctoral students (MDs and PhDs). He is involved in various research projects, locally, nationally and internationally. These consist of clinical, translational and basic research projects. His major aim is to perform multidisciplinary research, involving basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, statisticians and bioinformatics researchers.

Committees and Organizations:

Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases Society of America

American Society of Microbiology

President of the Swiss HIV-Cohort Study

Member, National Research Council of the Swiss National Research Foundation, Division III, Biology and Medicine

Honors and Awards:

The Bristol-Myers Squibb AIDS Award (1995)

Recipient of the Georg-Friedrich-Götz Preis – Research Award of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich (2006)

HIV Research Award for the most excellent Swiss basic research in HIV in the previous 2 years (2009)